不 vs. 没：前天我肚子很不舒服，连一点儿都__想吃。
Hi,
Just wanted to ask a quick question before I head to my bed.
I wanted to know if I had to use 不 or 没 in the following sentence:
"前天我肚子很不舒服，连一点儿都__想吃。"
My book says that it should be 不 but because this was in the past (前天 = the day before yesterday), shouldn't it be 没?
Please explain.
Thank you.
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Answers · 7
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不想 is the correct answer . Pls see it as a phrase . There is not "没想吃”，but “没想到”（not occur to someone).
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As in English, "no" vs "not" 不 = not, 沒 = no
不想 = do NOT want to think. So 沒 is wrong in this context. 沒想 literally, "no thinking" i.e. haven't thought of.
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我不想吃=I don't want to eat
我没想吃=I haven't thought of having food
As you mentioned, something you haven't done ,you should use没，but in this case, you didnt want to eat at that moment , which has nothing to do with having it done or not, so you shoud use 不in this sentence.
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我不想吃=I don't want to eat
我没想吃=I haven't thought of having food
As you mentioned, something you haven't done ,you should use没，but in this case, you didnt want to eat at that moment , which has nothing to do with having it done or not, so you shoud use 不in this sentence.
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Yah I had something similar come up last lesson. My understanding is that since yiqian places the action in the past, it's chill to use bu here.
The yiqian sort of fixes the scope of the following sentence.
Hope this helps, I'm also a bit fuzzy on this. Currently if I want to express the notion of "in the past I did not want to do something" I use yiqian and bu.
glhf!
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